Your practice scored low. What should you change first?

One reason coaches struggle to change their practice is that we have been taught to label activities too quickly. Good drill. Bad drill. Traditional drill. Ecological drill. Those labels may create an argument, but they rarely help a coach decide what to do next. When I began looking more critically at my own practice, the important shift was not replacing every activity with a game. It was learning to ask what each task invited the player to perceive and do. A predictable basket-fed backhand...